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Ten Things It’s Like

When compassion wells up from within the depths of my heartI see the three realms’ beings like they’re burning in a pit of fire

When I’m clinging in my heart to the teachings of the whispered lineageThat clinging just dissolves, like salt dissolving in water

When primordial wisdom arises inside, all doubts about itWhere you’re thinking maybe this is it, or maybe this is not itAre like dreaming that you’re meditating when you also know that you’re dreamingAnd the post-meditation is what happens when you wake up from that dream

When great bliss is embraced by the view of emptinessEverything appearing liberates itself like bubbles on the water

When you know the true nature of everything to be knownThe wisdom that’s aware of the true nature’s like a cloud-free sky

When the mud settles down and mind’s river is crystal clearSelf-arisen awareness is like a polished mirror’s shine

When the base-consciousness dissolves in the dharmakayaThe skandhas born of craving and grasping get crushed like an egg

When you’ve cut the rope of clinging, then the bardo in between two livesIs like a snake tied in a knot, the knot just comes untied

When your conduct is free of all adopting and all rejectingThe mind just settles down in a space that’s action-freeAnd this mind that settles down in a space that’s action-freeIs like the body and the mind and roar of a lion in his prime

Bright appearance, bright emptiness, and wisdom brightAre like the blazing sun when it’s shining in a cloud-free sky